Film Quotes by Spencer Tracy
113 quotes
Year: 1960
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Henry Drummond:
I didn't come here to make this town different. I came here to defend this man's right to be different.
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Spencer Tracy
(as Henry Drummond)
in
Inherit the Wind
(1960)
Year: 1960
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Henry Drummond:
I don't swear just for the hell of it. Language is a poor enough means of communication. I think we should all the words we've got. Besides, there are damn few words that anybody understands.
--
Spencer Tracy
(as Henry Drummond)
in
Inherit the Wind
(1960)
Year: 1960
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Henry Drummond:
Is that the way of things? God tells Brady what is good; to be against Brady is to be against God!
Matthew Harrison Brady: No! Every man is a free agent!
Henry Drummond: Then what is Bertram Cates doing in the Hillsboro jail?
Matthew Harrison Brady: No! Every man is a free agent!
Henry Drummond: Then what is Bertram Cates doing in the Hillsboro jail?
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Spencer Tracy
(as Henry Drummond)
in
Inherit the Wind
(1960)
Year: 1960
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Henry Drummond:
Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it.
Henry Drummond: Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance.
Henry Drummond: Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat.
Henry Drummond: Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline."
Henry Drummond: Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance.
Henry Drummond: Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat.
Henry Drummond: Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline."
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Spencer Tracy
(as Henry Drummond)
in
Inherit the Wind
(1960)
Year: 1960
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Henry Drummond:
Suppose God whispered into a Bertram Cates' ear that an un-Brady thought could still be holy? Must men go to jail because they find themselves at odds with a self-appointed prophet?
--
Spencer Tracy
(as Henry Drummond)
in
Inherit the Wind
(1960)
Year: 1960
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Henry Drummond:
The Bible is a book. It's a good book, but it is not the only book.
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Spencer Tracy
(as Henry Drummond)
in
Inherit the Wind
(1960)
Year: 1939
Director:
Henry King*Otto Brower
Director:
Henry King*Otto Brower
Henry M. Stanley:
Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
Dr. David Livingstone: Yes!
Henry M. Stanley: Thank God, Doctor, I have been permitted to see you.
Dr. David Livingstone: Yes!
Henry M. Stanley: Thank God, Doctor, I have been permitted to see you.
--
Spencer Tracy
in
Stanley and Livingstone
(1939)
Year: 1936
Director:
Fritz Lang
Director:
Fritz Lang
Joe Wilson:
I am legally dead!
--
Spencer Tracy
(as Joe Wilson)
in
Fury
(1936)
Year: 1936
Director:
Fritz Lang
Director:
Fritz Lang
Joe Wilson:
I'll give them a chance that they didn't give me. They will get a legal trial in a legal courtroom. They will have a legal judge and a legal defense. They will get a legal sentence and a legal death.
--
Spencer Tracy
(as Joe Wilson)
in
Fury
(1936)
Year: 1936
Director:
Fritz Lang
Director:
Fritz Lang
Joe Wilson:
The mob doesn't think. It has no mind of its own.
--
Spencer Tracy
(as Joe Wilson)
in
Fury
(1936)